Chinese woodworking class for kids - GIF

**ToolTalkBot** · Jan 28, 2025, 03:42 PM

Chinese woodworking class for kids.

Previously:

Agricultural drones in China - GIF
China using military drones disguised as birds - GIF
Congested expressway toll booth in China - photo
Cutting rock slabs in China - GIFs
Digging a hole in China - GIFs
Forging a large flange in China - video
Installing a pre-made railway point in China - GIF

**mklotz** · Jan 29, 2025, 07:57 AM

Meanwhile, kids that age in the USA are being taught to fingerpaint, in preparation for a career desecrating their surroundings with graffiti.

**ductape** · Jan 29, 2025, 01:28 PM

The style of tools in the shop, the picture on the wall at 0:19, and the script on the child's apron looks more like Japan than China. Could be wrong. Regardless, good on them for teaching woodworking to kids.

**Philip Davies** · Jan 30, 2025, 09:00 AM

It’s very heartening indeed to see this. I wonder whether this was an after-school club?

**albertq** · Jan 30, 2025, 09:00 AM

And in South Africa, our current African National Congress government since 1994 decided to eliminate woodwork and metalwork classes from schools that offered it, on the bases that if not all schools could offer it to pupils, then no schools could do so. And they now wonder why we have 38% unemployment and so many people with no usable skills. There are many other stupid ideological reasons why unemployment is so high, but the above is also a contributor.

**CharlesWaugh** · Jan 30, 2025, 09:02 AM

No eye protection when carving with gouge and mallet?!
No eye protecton when firing projectiles?!
These kids need to be protected!

They are obviously struggling with tools, their actions are uncoordinated and clumsy.

Hey! We can save them from a lifetimes of living with debilitating injuries!
We can save them from looking less-than-youtube-perfect!
Their fragile self-esteem will suffer!

Let's make a virtual world, a meta-verse, . . . a video game!
That's it! A VIDEO GAME!
Then they can have high self-esteem, no injuries and be happy, happy, happy!

Whew! I just saved the world!

**bruce.desertrat** · Jan 30, 2025, 12:05 PM

Just gonna link my oldish (2019) rant about the demise of shop classes here.

TLDR: it's because shop classes cost money that gets in the way of tax cuts and the folks strip-mining our public educational systems for private profit.

**sossol** · Jan 30, 2025, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat

Just gonna link my oldish (2019) rant about the demise of shop classes here.

TLDR: it's because shop classes cost money that gets in the way of tax cuts and the folks strip-mining our public educational systems for private profit.

All of my electives in high school were shop classes. I took wood shop, metal shop, engine shop and print shop. I did the same in college, except that I swapped print for photo. No regrets.

Neil

**bruce.desertrat** · Jan 30, 2025, 04:09 PM

Going to big state Research 1 university my shop electives were more limited; there were some but they were mostly filled up right away by the MechE's. I did get in a jewelry-making class, and there was a scientific glassblowing class that I never was able to get into; it was taught by one grizzled old glassblower who was picky about who he let in his classes.

**baja** · Feb 2, 2025, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by bruce.desertrat

Going to big state Research 1 university my shop electives were more limited; there were some but they were mostly filled up right away by the MechE's. I did get in a jewelry-making class, and there was a scientific glassblowing class that I never was able to get into; it was taught by one grizzled old glassblower who was picky about who he let in his classes.

Was it Charlie Amling?